Sigment is the latest framework to offer a streamlined, "no-build" alternative to the complexity of React. Find out how Sigment simplifies.

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Sigment is a new open-source JavaScript framework created as a simpler alternative to React-based frameworks. It avoids JSX syntax, doesn't mix HTML with JavaScript, and skips the virtual DOM in favor of Signals for reactivity. The framework uses JavaScript tag functions and templates instead of JSX, eliminating the need for transpilation and build tools like Babel or Webpack. This approach results in smaller bundle sizes, faster performance, zero-config development, and makes it more accessible to developers who know vanilla JavaScript but don't want to learn React. Sigment supports both single-page applications and HTML-first architecture with dynamic rendering and caching.

A New JavaScript Framework? In this Economy?

The Problem With Mixing HTML and JavaScript

LLMs messed up everything new frameworks!

Nextjs is extremely awesome because of server actions, it’s very good and makes writing an app pretty excellent. But it’s also a totally bloated disaster with far too many features locked down into a structure that will be hard to move on from when everyone realizes how limited it is. The fact that middleware is a code smell for example. So that’s why we need to keep innovating, keep trying new things. I don’t understand this idea that we have all the frameworks we’ll ever need that just seems like the easy way out of needing to form an actual opinion.

At last … wow I truly believe this is the begining of the future of frameworks, this might just be the new JQuery! Keep it going.

How dare you invent something that is not an LLM output.

I get the comments, we all have JS ecosystem fatigue… but this framework has actually very good points.
A FE library that supports SSR and doesn’t require you to learn new syntax, without a compiler step, just using web standards? YES PLEASE.
This is the kind of evolution the ecosystem needs: be closer to standards rather than fighting against them.
Remix v3 is also going in the same direction.
IMHO this is the way and we should be contributing more. That’s the only way to move the ecosystem forward and away from the React monopoly.
All that said, this library seems to be in npm but the original source code is not public 👀… so hard to know if it’s going to become abandonware or not. It’s also very very similar to VanJS.